Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts
Richard Vaughn

Today: The Lord’s Day – Sunday. Right?
John the Revelator said in Revelation 1:10 “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day” Most of Christianity believes Sunday is the Lord’s Day. I was raised a Methodist and for the first 21 years of my life I believed it because my pastor said it was so. Sunday had always seemed so sacred. But this is not a question that should be answered by any man, nor by what feels right. This is a question God alone can answer through His Word the Bible. And remember, the Bible always interprets itself. 
The word Sunday is not in the Bible. All references to Sunday are “the first day of the week,” just as Friday and Saturday are not in the Bible either. They are called the sixth day and the seventh day respectively.
So in order for us to conclusively accept that Sunday is the Lord’s Day, God must have made that connection somewhere in the New Testament. As any Bible scholar readily knows, the seventh day, Saturday, was the Sabbath in the Old Testament. So what we must find is two things. 1. The Lord’s Day connected to the first day and 2. A scripture showing God changed the Sabbath to the first day. Careful study will find the first day of the week mentioned 8 times in the N.T. You will need to look them up as space will not allow me to put them in the space allowed. We use the King James version.
Let’s examine the first five. Lookup Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2; Mark 16:9; Luke 24:1; and John 20:1. Notice that they are similar in content and do not satisfy as they refer to the women who come to the tomb on the first day of the week, after the Sabbath was past, and find that Jesus had already risen. The first day we now call Easter Sunday.
Look up Scripture #6, John 20:19. It was the same day Jesus rose from the dead. It was not a religious meeting, as the disciples did not believe Jesus had risen and they were assembled for fear of the Jews. That means they were afraid for their lives and were trying to figure out what to do next. Then Jesus appeared. This verse does not satisfy either. Look up Scripture #7, Acts 20:7,8. What these verses are describing is a meeting on what we today call Saturday night. In Bible times days began at sundown. They had a full day on the Sabbath and the sun had set and the first day of the week began. But this first day meeting was occurring on the dark part of the day, which precedes the light part. It was Saturday night and it continued till midnight. Paul had to catch a ship when it was daylight, Sunday morning. He wanted to spend as much time as possible with these people before leaving on his journey. They were not having a communion service. What  they were having was a fellowship dinner. Breaking bread was often the term used for having a meal. See Acts 2:46. These verses do not satisfy either. 
Now look up the final verse. 1 Corinthians 16:1-3. This was not a Sunday meeting with an offering being taken. Paul was instructing all the believers at the churches in Galatia and Corinth, to put some money aside for the poor Jewish Christians in Jerusalem. They typically finished their regular work week on the sixth day. Then kept the seventh day holy according to the commandment, and did their business accounting on the first day of the week. That was the time to set funds aside for their fellow believers in Jerusalem, so that when Paul came through, there would not have to be a special collection. It was laid by in store.
None of the previous eight Scriptures connected the Lord’s Day to the first day of the week. And there is no scripture in the N.T. that shows God changed the Sabbath to the first day either. Does God connect the Lord’s Day to any other day? Matthew 12:8   “For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.” (Lord, day).  In the August 24th article, “Creation’s Creators,” we learned that Jesus as Creator, made the Sabbath on the seventh day, proclaimed it on Mt. Sinai and wrote it in stone. In the August 31st article we learned that Jesus declared the perpetuity of the Ten Commandments in Matthew 5:17-19. Do the Ten Commandments identify the Lord’s Day? Look at Exodus 20:10 “But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God.” (day, Lord). See also Isaiah 58:13. There is no first day connection, but the seventh day is connected.
Understand dear reader, this is not a man’s private interpretation. This was declared by  Jesus Himself and He states in Psalm 89:34 “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.” Malachi 3:6 “For I am the LORD, I change not”
Should we keep Sunday in honor of the resurrection? Jesus never commanded that. We have baptism to celebrate His resurrection. See Romans 6:3-6. 
Next Week:  Left Behind. The Secret Rapture?